Yes, thanks. It's not the most glamorous work, but a huge amount of effort has gone into making installation smooth, so it's pleasing that GTK just worked for you.
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Elliot Saba <[email protected]> wrote: > Well thank you very much for the exuberant message. A lot of people have > put a lot of work into this release, and it's nice for everyone involved to > wake up to messages like this in their inbox. :) > -E > > > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Carlo Kokoth <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I remember checking Julia some time back, and thinking "This looks almost >> perfect". >> >> Macros (and homoiconicity), multiple dispatch, the Types section of the >> manual is geek-porn, speedy more than enough, support for distributed >> computation, yada, yada (yeah, I'm a programming language fetishist ;-). >> >> I wished basically only two things, threading support and some way to >> cache compiled code. >> >> And today I checked what is happenning, and whadda-ya-know, 0.3.0 has >> been released, stating, among other things: >> >> - System image caching for fast startup. >> - Multi-process shared memory support. (multi-threading support is in >> progress and has been a major summer focus) >> >> WoooooOOOOOOOoooooooooo. Haven't expected so fast progress. >> >> Next very pleasant surprise was trying out GTK. I feared (sadly running >> on windows at work) that the installation would fail because it would try >> to compile the dependencies from sources and I don't have mingw on PATH by >> default, but instead binaries were downloaded. And then, after writing a >> bit of test code, it worked without a glitch. >> >> I had more troubles with getting some packages work with python (no >> pre-compiled bins, and although I can manage, sometimes getting all the >> transitive dependencies is an afternoon of downloading yet another source >> archive, ./configure-ing, make-ing, digging into why it failed, patching, >> rinsing, repeating ...). >> >> So right now, I'd give Julia about 6 points out of 5, (as 1.0 approaches, >> the score will most likely rise to 10 out of 5, don't skimp on the awesome >> ;-). >> >> In-fucking-credible work, thanks to everyone who helped to make it happen, >> C.K. >> > >
